It’s probably not surprising that a few governments were caught using spyware on citizens’ smartphones. What is likely more frightening than anything is just how robust this spyware operated in terms of total access to user data. The governments of Mexico, the United Arab Emirates, and Morocco, among others, allegedly used the NSO Group’s Pegasus […]
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Kodak finds itself in a similar position as Sony a few weeks ago as a seemingly innocent Instagram post set off an online furore in China that led to a retraction and apology from the company. What caused netizens in China to become upset? Kodak shared a photograph by French photographer Patrick Wack taken in […]
Instagram might be sending out some mixed signals to photographers with this latest announcement. After making the announcement that they were focusing on video from here on out, now we’re getting word that they’ll pay you, along with Facebook, to share your work on their platforms. How much money do they have in this treasure […]
It probably wasn’t the Kodak moment they wanted to capture, but it is likely to be the memory of a lifetime nonetheless. A bolt of lightning hit three teens taking a selfie outside during a rainstorm and the smartphone camera happened to capture that exact moment. The BBC reports that siblings Rachel, Isobel, and Andrew […]
The back-and-forth between Instagram and its competitors is not nearly as interesting as the tale of the division that is eclipsing its parent company in many ways. Constantly worried about Facebook’s relevance in a vastly crowded social media field, Instagram’s parent company has done everything from label its divisions as a part of the mothership […]
It looks like Apple smartphones will get a feature that Samsung users have taken for granted for some time now. Of course, if you ask Samsung devotees, that’s usually how the story goes. But it isn’t like any of this is a surprise, especially when most people have predicted that periscope lenses are “on the […]
